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Fernando Pessoa Quotes: I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
         

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.


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